I'm currently leading the poll for of the year! Really putting Wolverhampton on the map.

I've not seen Cinci nominated by anyone this year. His hit and wum game must have dropped off. He's usually good for one or two nominations without making it to the final rounds.

Weak competition this year though. Many of the previous years front runners have disappeared.

Same as others are saying. He has been let down badly in the window and as he himself has said, he doesn't have the right players to play the way he actually wants so its make do for now.

Not entirely sure i understand how we have become so erratic though, I don't see any logic in the claims that he had to reel it in after getting no points in the first three games because in those first three games we outplayed our opponents and didn't lose through naivety or stupidity, we just couldn't score.

Seems like more than anything he likes to overthink it and his tactics for each opposition and sometimes he hits and sometimes he misses. Nuno generally just had one way of going about it. Sit deep, kill the first half, open up a bit in the second.

7/10

comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 2 minutes ago
I've not seen Cinci nominated by anyone this year. His hit and wum game must have dropped off. He's usually good for one or two nominations without making it to the final rounds.

Weak competition this year though. Many of the previous years front runners have disappeared.
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Was wondering when this comp would kick in. They keep calling me a but when it comes to the crunch they never nominate me

I think Bruno eased off on the playing style due to the personnel. I think we'd suffer burn out with Neves and Moutinho playing a high press every week. He needed to bring in players so he could rotate without compromising the quality on the pitch to maintain that style of play. As well as having an improved backing to build from.

As soon as the transfer window closed and we didn't strengthen, he reverted back to a more sustainable style where we only press in spells.

comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted about a minute ago
I think Bruno eased off on the playing style due to the personnel. I think we'd suffer burn out with Neves and Moutinho playing a high press every week. He needed to bring in players so he could rotate without compromising the quality on the pitch to maintain that style of play. As well as having an improved backing to build from.

As soon as the transfer window closed and we didn't strengthen, he reverted back to a more sustainable style where we only press in spells.
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Yeah possibly right

Unlikely we do enough in January either unfortunately. Bit of a wasted season all told.

Personally, I think his has done a pretty good job.
Hamstrung by no real signings and a few injuries have held him back.
Can't really judge him until ( or if ) he gets some more players in.
Its easy to criticise his use of substitutes ( I'm guilty of that as well) but its a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't.
8/10.

done better than I expected, my eyes don't bleed as much watching us play now which is a start.

squad is certainly top heavy, even more so when Neto comes back... need atleast one Cm and CB but that said right now

a solid 7/10

because Im nice and I'd like our board to win some silverware Cinci and Black Country got my 2 votes... even though we all know it's culer

I think there will be a general disappointment with the January transfer window, just because it’s rarely anything else. So I don’t see any radical changes in the way we play for the remainder of this season.

Suspect 3 at the back will be the order of the day for the rest of this campaign. We have a glut of forwards, added to when Neto gets back, and at least we have Hwang getting into scoring positions and not just Jimenez.

If I could pick one type of player that would make a big difference for us to bring in during January it would be a mobile, box to box midfield player. A Premier League Dave Edwards or a black country Kante.

As for substitutions I don’t criticise who Bruno brings on, just that I wish he changed things earlier. We got away with it at Villa but against Leeds and Everton we lost initiative by not making changes when the opposition made theirs and the opponents forced us back not so much through an introduction of skill but just through having fresh legs. And at Palace it wasn’t working yet I always sensed we wouldn’t change anything until they scored

Hello boys. Finally back home after 2 cancelled ferries and 14 hours of driving, Got a stinking cold but glad to be back home. Looking forward to the next game where I think we might spring a surprise on an over confident West Ham side.

Goldi and Tino, I am outraged. I now know how Caesar felt.

comment by GeminMallorca (U18318)
posted less than a minute ago
Hello boys. Finally back home after 2 cancelled ferries and 14 hours of driving, Got a stinking cold but glad to be back home. Looking forward to the next game where I think we might spring a surprise on an over confident West Ham side.
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A stinking cold is part of going to the UK for a few weeks. I get one every single time i go back

Come back soon gem. We played well that game you were here

Wolves U21s play at Crewe tonight in the Papa Johns Trophy. Now who would have expected to see John Ruddy get selected for the U21s?

7/10 for Bruno I am pleased overall
stronger squad than last season mainly missing a CM up and down type
EFL not go so well

yeah hammered. 3-0 last I heard and was one way traffic mostly.

With many players away on international duty this week Wolves have bought 4 loan players back from their temporary clubs so Bruno can check their progress as they train with the remaining first team squad. Conor Ronan, Ryan Giles, Dion Sanderson and Austin Samuels are all at Compton

Gossip is that our 4 Portuguese internationals are tasked with talking to Renato Sanches this week to encourage him to come to Molineux. Evidently it’s a tactic Villa used when Martinez was away with Argentina and had conversations with Buendia

https://www.footballfancast.com/wolves-transfer-rumours/wolves-eye-move-for-renato-sanches-premier-league-lille-transfers

Bit of a bit of an up and down season so far. Some real highs, some lows but nothing quite as bad as we saw last season so far (Burnley/West Ham/Albion). I think what we're seeing is Lage's lack of experience at this level and hopefully he's learning the right lessons, he's only had a season and a bit as a head coach previously and in a league that is far less competitive that ours. 7/10 so far for me, room for improvement but in a decent position to progress.

comment by Cinciwolf----Bow wow wow, yippie yo, yippie yay. (U11551)
posted 15 hours, 56 minutes ago
Goldi and Tino, I am outraged. I now know how Caesar felt.
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You're welcome

Gossip is that our 4 Portuguese internationals are tasked with talking to Renato Sanches this week to encourage him to come to Molineux. Evidently it’s a tactic Villa used when Martinez was away with Argentina and had conversations with Buendia
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You'd think Neves and Moutinho would not be keen on talking someone in to taking their shirt from them.

Rumours that new Barcelona manager Xavi wants to negotiate Trincao returning to Barcelona in January.

comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 18 minutes ago
Rumours that new Barcelona manager Xavi wants to negotiate Trincao returning to Barcelona in January.
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read that earlier, also read that Trincao's loan cost us £6m

Could just be Barcelona trying to force us to make it permanent in January to raise funds.